Weather is an evergreen small talk topic, and after this episode of Tangents you will be fully equipped to blow the socks off every grocery store clerk, dental technician, and next door neighbor you meet with your in-depth knowledge of wind, precipitation, and more!
Weather is an evergreen small talk topic, and after this episode of Tangents you will be fully equipped to blow the socks off every grocery store clerk, dental technician, and next door neighbor you meet with your in-depth knowledge of wind, precipitation, and more!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Brain Storm]
Falling animals
https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/can-it-rain-frogs-fish-and-other-objects
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lluvia-de-peces-the-rain-of-fish
https://www.thelocal.no/20150416/earthworms-rain-from-sky-over-southern-norway
Automated Weather Observing Systems
https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Automated_Weather_Observing_System_(AWOS)
https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_150_5220-16E.pdf
Cloud seeding
https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/03/25/270084/weather-engineering-in-china/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7899086.stm
https://web.archive.org/web/20111123025420/http://www.ceawmt.in/indian_history.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809515000484
https://www.ncm.ae/en/details.html?id=825&lid=575
https://www.popsci.com/smog-cloud-seeding-thailand/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/ncfa-wcs012606.php
https://journalofweathermodification.org/index.php/JWM/article/view/474
https://www.weathermod-bg.eu/index_en.php
[Fact Off]
Tempest Prognosticator
Pic here: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/07/tempest-prognosticator-predicting.html
https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/cloud-watching-understanding-weather/
https://www.smithjournal.com.au/blogs/science/3898-can-you-predict-the-weather-with-leeches
https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-used-leaches-to-predict-the-weather
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/leeches-predict-weather-tempest-prognosticator
AMDAR
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL088613
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02198-4
https://community.wmo.int/activity-areas/aircraft-based-observations/amdar/about-amdar
https://amdar.noaa.gov/docs/bams/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Acid rain
https://www.epa.gov/acidrain/what-acid-rain
http://butane.chem.uiuc.edu/pshapley/GenChem1/L26/3.html
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/ocean-acidification